The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a Washington D.C.-based partnership between the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Pew Charitable Trusts, has developed an online inventory of more than 1,000 consumer products sold today that contain nanomaterials.
These products range from tennis rackets to sunscreen lotions, socks, shirts, makeup, plasma TV screens, flash drives and canola oil. To view the inventory, go to www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/browse.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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